## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1st September 2024 To 31st August 2025** **Charity name: Friends of Ley Hill School** **Charity registration number: 1209220** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The purpose of the charity is to raise**
**funds to support and enhance the lives of**
**children who attend Ley Hill School**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and 1.19|**Activities have included 2 school discos**
**(one silent, one with a live DJ), second-**
**hand uniform sales (1 per half term),**
**Scarecrow trail, Christmas fair,**
**participation in clothes recycling**
**schemes, Sip & Paint events, Mothers and**
**Fathers day events, Sponsored ‘move’**
**event (children had to complete as many**
**miles as possible through either running,**
**cycling, walking, or swimming), selling ice**
**lollies, summer fair.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have complied with their**
**duty to have due regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity Commission on**
**public benefit.**
**In planning and overseeing our activities**
**for the year, the trustees have kept the**
**Commission’s guidance in mind to ensure**
**the association’s efforts directly advance**
**the education of the pupils at Ley Hill**
**School.**
**We achieve this public benefit by:**
**- developing effective, collaborative**
**relationships between staff, parents,**
**and the wider school community.**
**- Engaging in fundraising activities and**
**community events to provide extra**
**facilities, resources, and educational**
**equipment that would not otherwise be**
**funded by the schools core budget.**
**All pupils at the school benefit from the**| **items and opportunities provided by the PTA, regardless of their background or financial means. A summary of the specific funded and community events hosted this year can be found in the Achievements and Performance section on page 3.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Through the activities listed above, the**
**following achievements have been met:**
**- Termly payments to each year group,**
**benefitting every child in the school**
**through their teacher being able to buy**
**extra materials to enhance learning**
**- Subsidising the whole school trip to the**
**pantomime ensured that no child was**
**left out due to financial hardship**
**- Purchasing books for Father Christmas**
**to distribute at the school Christmas**
**Lunch meaning that every child got a**
**gift from Father Christmas**
**- Purchased a full set of Walkie-Talkies**
**for the staff to ensure the safety of every**| **child at school whilst on site - Offering free places at the school disco, a free visit to see Father Christmas at the Christmas Fair and an 'unlimited bounce’ band for the bouncy castle at the summer fair for all Pupil Premium children at the school meant that children were not excluded from PTA activities held for the children due to financial hardship** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|Total income was £37,356 and expenditure
was £18,795 for the year. Closing bank
balance was £18,561. This meets the expected
level of spending for the year.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Charity holds a reserve of 2 years of
committed funds in a separate but linked
savings account.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£8,000| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**The charity is governed by the Parentkind**
**Model Constitution, adopted on 18th July**
**2024**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**The charity is constituted as an**
**Unincorporated Association**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|**Committee members (who act as the**
**charity trustees) are elected annually by a**
**vote of the members at the Annual**
**General Meeting (AGM). They hold office**
**until the conclusion of the next AGM. The**
**committee also retains the constitutional**
**power to co-opt additional trustees during**
**the year to fill vacancies, and any co-**
**opted trustees serve until the next AGM.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures Para 1.51 adopted for the induction and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** Charity name Friends of Ley Hill School |Other name the charity uses|FOLHS| |---|---| |Registered charity number|1209220| |Charity’s principal address|Ley Hill School
The Green
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Becky Gorf|Chair||| ||Sarah Veness|Treasurer||| ||Michelle
Hamilton-Pike|Secretary||| ||Claire Leek|Co-Chair||| ||Hannah Hayne|Co-Secretary||| ||Victoria Lang|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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Friends of Ley Hill School 1209220
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/09/2024 31/08/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Funds introduced on charity formation 21,182 - - 21,182 -
Donations received - 3,276 - 3,276 -
Income from fundraising activites 12,898 - - 12,898 -
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Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 34,080 ] 3,276 - 37,356 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 34,080 3,276 - 37,356 -
A3 Payments
Donations made to school 12,707 1,395 - 14,102 -
Cost of fundraising activities 3,999 - - 3,999 -
Purchases of school equipment 464 - - 464 -
Subscriptions costs 162 - - 162 -
Bank charges 68 - - 68 -
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Sub total [ 17,400 ] 1,395 - 18,795 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments [ 17,400 ] 1,395 - 18,795 -
Net of receipts/(payments) 16,680 1,881 - 18,561 -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end 16,680 1,881 - 18,561 -
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 19/06/2026 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
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behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
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**1,881**
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Date of
approval| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 19/06/2026 2 An ExaminerslAuditors report is not required.